In her latest solo titled Breathing on Mirrors, Anju Dodiya maintains that she has confined her work to what she calls "minimal emotional theatre". It's a space where her protagonist echoes the words of the great Austro-German poet Rainer Maria Rilke — "Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final."

The exhibition that opened last weekend at Chemould Prescott Road plays on the figurative and is fuelled by a charge of emotion. Having graduated from Sir JJ School of Art in 1986, Dodiya has always infused pictorial references into her work with sources ranging from Renaissance paintings, Japanese Ukiyo-e prints, newspaper photographs, Indian miniatures and of late, Instagram. This show also explores women responding to their domestic or peripheral struggles; you see strong charcoal lines, geometry and theatrical postures.